英美音乐论文 Music Is The Voice Of The Time To Which It Belongs..docVIP

Music Is The Voice Of The Time To Which It Belongs. 课程名称：英美音乐及文化 Music Is The Voice Of The Time To Which It Belongs. American Musician Richard Rodgers Once Said: “Music Is The Voice Of The Time To Which It Belongs.” Through the course of “The BritishAmerican Music And The Culture Concerned”,I think anti-war songs is the best example to illustrate the view. An?anti-war song?is a? HYPERLINK /wiki/Musical_composition \o Musical composition musical composition?that either states anti-war directly, one which the public and/or critics define as having an anti-war theme, or advocates universal peace.Some anti-war songs comment on the aspects of? HYPERLINK /wiki/War \o War war, while others satirize war. Most promote? HYPERLINK /wiki/Peace \o Peace peace, in some form or another, while others sing out against specific? HYPERLINK /wiki/Armed_conflict \o Armed conflict armed conflicts. Still others sing about the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and the human race in general. Many of these songs are considered? HYPERLINK /wiki/Protest_song \o Protest song protest songs, and some have been embraced by various? HYPERLINK /wiki/Peace_movement \o Peace movement peace movements and peace activities. I will list some anti-war songs in time order as example to analyze the relationship between the songs and the period to which they belong to. The big battle is a song sung by Johnny cash. The big battle stands for American Civil War.The lyric tells us the cruelty of the war.The war brought American catastrophe.People desire peace.From the two, songs which I list as examples,we can see that anti-war songs are closely linked to the period when it was released.What an anti-war song wants to express depends on the background.For instance,the big battle was born during American Civil War,so it presented us the what people had suffered from the war.Therefore,music is the voice of t